Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed by the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, National Symphony, LA Opera, Opera Australia, Scottish Opera, Opéra Comique, Norwegian National Opera, Eighth Blackbird, Kronos Quartet and many others. She is one of the first two women to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera; her work Lincoln in the Bardo will premiere there in October 2026. Highlights of 2025–26 include the world premiere of her new opera The Galloping Cure at the Edinburgh International Festival, two new productions of Breaking the Waves in Germany, and performances by the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, and the Copenhagen Philharmonic. Mazzoli has been nominated twice for GRAMMY® awards for Best Classical Composition, and recent commissions include Violin Concerto: Procession for Jennifer Koh and the National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and the BBC Proms; The Listeners for Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Lyric Opera, and Norwegian National Opera; and Millennium Canticles for Third Coast Percussion. She was Composer in Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2018–2021), and Opera Philadelphia (2012–15). In 2016, with composer Ellen Reid, she founded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program for young female and non-binary composers. Her works are published by G. Schirmer.